Takahiro Suzuki Chamber Music Series Enformel vol.5 Listen to Mononoaware
Business Overview
A series featuring chamber works on saxophone and other instruments. The theme this time is the experience of "the wonder of things" that resides in sound. Works by Japanese composers including Hosokawa Toshio, and new works by internationally acclaimed composer Kuwabara Yu, who traces Japanese culture from its roots. A building called Gudo-kaikan where Buddhism and Western culture are fused. He created a unique world by fusing all these elements, and created a time to listen to the "Mono no Aware" that resides in us.
Cast: Sax. Takahiro Suzuki, Soprano. Noriko YAKUSHIJI, Sho Composed by Hanako Nakamura, Yu Kuwabara
Program Dance/Wabi Noda, Awame no Uta b/Yu Kuwabara, Light and Dark, Three Love Songs/Toshio Hosokawa, Statement/Jacob T.V, Time of 6:00 III, Dogan/Yu Kuwabara
- Period of Activity / Project
- Monday, August 3, 2026
- Venues
- Gudo-kaikan (Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo)
Profile
【 Suzuki Takahiro 】
After studying at the Music High School attached to the Faculty of Music of Tokyo University of the Arts, he completed the graduate school of the same university. He received the Doseikai Award when he graduated from university and the Acanthus Music Award after completing graduate school. He performed in the New Performers' Concert of the Association and regular chamber music at the University of the Arts. Attended master classes by C. Durangle, V. David, and A. Bornkamp at the GAP Summer Workshop in France. He is also active as a player in domestic professional orchestras and brass bands, and has held five solo recitals in Tokyo.
Based on these performances, he began the chamber music series "Enformel" in 2019. Starting with the saxophone, he has had many encounters with various musical instruments, and has performed chamber music works by K. Aho, D. Maslanca, and J. M. Lopez-Lopez for the first time in Japan. Each performance is designed around a theme or story, presenting new possibilities for the saxophone as an experience that includes sound, time and space.